My worst example was the word GIF pronounced like the peanut butter instead of properly as in Graphical. It’s worse because Amanda Montell was writing a linguistics book about the history of language and words.
Recent example was “eschew” which is pronounced Eh-shoo but the narrator said “Eskew” and it confused me so much I had to Google it to make sure I hadn’t been saying it wrong my whole life. What exmaples have you found?
I find one in almost every Audiobook. I am currently listening to Ready Player One read by Will Wheaton and he massacres the formal Name Richard.
It only comes up once. He says Ric Hard maybe. throwing a hard C and an extra syllable in there.
The word penguin appears twice in Fathomless on pages 324 and 331. Narrator Sean Mangan handles the word like a pro. Megalodon, on the other hand, appears 85 times. This is a piece of bad luck for Sean Mangan because he has no more an idea how to say megalodon than Benedict Cumberbatch has saying penguin. To Shaun’s slight defense, at least he is phonetically sounding out megalodon, as opposed to Cumberbatch’s penwings and penlings.
I feel like Ready Player One was probably edited a bit more, because in the second one Wheaton is horrendous and mispronounces a lot more.